Cyber Security Governance Analyst | Remote, USA

Optiv • Boston, MA

4d • $82,700 - $110,200 • Remote

About The Position

The Governance Analyst is responsible for representing Cyber Security governance interests within project delivery teams, capturing individual client requirements and working with Optiv technical and client engagement teams to produce clear, accurate documentation to meet all requirements. The Governance Analyst will have senior technical writing expertise and an eye for detail to document processes within governance frameworks. Possess the ability to maintain proper methodology for purposes of consistency and efficiency. This is an Operational Governance role working with technical and non-technical teams, requiring an ability to advise from a Governance perspective as well as create and present documentation for client stakeholders.

Requirements

• Governance operations, stakeholder coordination, organization, attention to detail, task management, problem solving, and collaboration.
• Cybersecurity terminology literacy and ability to communicate effectively with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Advanced Microsoft 365 proficiency with strong technical writing, editing, formatting, and presentation-development skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting governance, cybersecurity, program management, knowledge management, or related business functions.
• Experience gathering stakeholder input and converting it into structured requirements, documentation, or platform updates.
• Experience supporting SharePoint, Jira, Smartsheet, Forms, or similar platforms while managing multiple assignments with limited supervision.

Responsibilities

• Support AFC governance processes, standards, operational activities, onboarding, service transitions, and readiness initiatives.
• Coordinate governance meetings, working sessions, action items, follow-ups, dependencies, deliverables, and decision records.
• Maintain governance calendars, task lists, initiative documentation, and assigned-action tracking to support timely completion.
• Partner with stakeholders to gather business, technical, content, access, workflow, and operational requirements.
• Document needs, current-state challenges, process steps, dependencies, decisions, outcomes, and implementation notes.
• Translate and validate requirements into user stories, process maps, forms, workflows, templates, and platform updates.
• Provide administrative, content, and user support for AFC platforms including SharePoint, Jira, Smartsheet, Forms, Teams, Power Automate, and Microsoft 365.
• Maintain sites, lists, libraries, pages, forms, boards, trackers, templates, permissions, and team resources according to procedures.
• Support workflow configuration, testing, troubleshooting, maintenance, content cleanup, and platform adoption.
• Draft, edit, format, and maintain governance standards, procedures, playbooks, job aids, process maps, knowledge articles, presentations, and communications.
• Translate cybersecurity, technical, and operational information into clear, concise, actionable documentation using approved templates and terminology.
• Manage document libraries, metadata, ownership, review dates, version history, publication status, reviews, feedback incorporation, and final publishing.
• Build working knowledge of managed cybersecurity programs, service delivery models, AFC terminology, security platforms, and operational workflows.
• Apply cybersecurity context across documentation, requirements, workflows, stakeholder communications, and discussions involving threat operations or technical dependencies.
• Document current- and future-state processes, identify gaps, manual steps, duplication, standardization opportunities, and automation candidates.
• Support development, testing, stakeholder feedback, implementation, and adoption of approved forms, workflows, templates, and process improvements.
• Collaborate with Program Management, Engineering, Threat Management, Advisory, and Governance stakeholders to support shared objectives.
• Promote clear communications and consistent use of governance tools, documentation, and processes across AFC teams.

Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation and benefits package
• Variable incentive-based bonus plan
• Company committed to championing Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion through our Employee Resource Groups.
• Work/life balance
• Professional training resources
• Creative problem-solving and the ability to tackle unique, complex projects
• Volunteer Opportunities. “Optiv Chips In” encourages employees to volunteer and engage with their teams and communities.
• The ability and technology necessary to productively work remotely/from home (where applicable)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed